{"id":67437,"date":"2019-07-02T14:34:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T13:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=67437"},"modified":"2019-07-02T16:33:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T15:33:35","slug":"nbc-n2-5bn-fraud-kawu-others-ask-court-to-stop-lai-mohammed-from-appearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/nbc-n2-5bn-fraud-kawu-others-ask-court-to-stop-lai-mohammed-from-appearing\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC N2.5bn Fraud: Kawu, Others Ask Court To Stop Lai Mohammed From\u00a0 Appearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"adn ads\" data-message-id=\"#msg-f:1637950799587549845\" data-legacy-message-id=\"16bb2b92f0fba295\">\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":pk\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":pj\" class=\"a3s aXjCH \">The Chairman of Pinnacle Communications Limited, Lucky Omoluwa, has<br \/>\nasked a Federal High Court, Abuja, to stop the former Minister of<br \/>\nInformation and Culture, Lai Mohammed, from testifying in the ongoing<br \/>\ntrial of an alleged misapplication of N2.5 billion Federal Government<br \/>\nDigital Switch-Over (DSO) programme.Mohammed had been scheduled to appear as witness by the Independent<br \/>\nCorrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), who is<br \/>\nprosecuting the Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission<br \/>\n(NBC), Ishaq Modibbo Kawu, Omoluwa and Dipo Onifade over an alleged<br \/>\nabuse of office and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>He will be expected to tell the court his role leading to the approval<br \/>\nof N2.5 billion DSO seed grant to a private company, Pinnacle<br \/>\nCommunications Limited, owned by Omoluwa with Onifade as the Chief<br \/>\nOperating Officer.<\/p>\n<p>Counsel to Omoluwa and Onifade, Alex Iziyon (SAN), had approached<br \/>\nJustice Folashade Ogunbanjo-Giwa, with a motion seeking the court to<br \/>\nstop ICPC from bringing Mohammed as a witness.<\/p>\n<p>His prayers, which were supported by Kawu\u2019s counsel, Adetayo Adeyomo,<br \/>\nalso sought to stop the court from admitting a written statement of the<br \/>\nformer Minister filed by ICPC as evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Ogunbanjo-Giwa adjourned the matter to Thursday, 4th July, 2019<br \/>\nfor continuation of trial as well as ruling on a pending bail<br \/>\napplication for the release of the passports of Omoluwa and Onifade.<\/p>\n<p>ICPC had filed an amended 11-count charge against Kawu, Omoluwa and<br \/>\nOnifade, saying that the NBC Director General misled the former Minister<br \/>\ninto approving government funds to a private company to carry out the<br \/>\nDSO project.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hi\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ajx\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gA gt acV\">\n<div class=\"gB xu\">\n<div class=\"ip iq\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of Pinnacle Communications Limited, Lucky Omoluwa, has asked a Federal High Court, Abuja, to stop the former Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, from testifying in the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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